DOGS DESERVE DIALOGUE; Rover Should Hang on Your Words Not on Your Leash

This book explains in plain and simple language the two reasons for bad, inappropriate, or uncooperative dog behavior. Then this book teaches the reader a practical method, based on kindness and love, for eliminating the underlying causes of all forms of bad dog behavior without punishment. This book teaches the reader how to use the basic obedience exercises (sit, down, stand, stay, come, heel) to build life-saving dialogue with your dog in minutes, without punishment. The reader will use this book as a step-by-step guide to the great relationship with his dog he may never have thought possible.

Judy Moore has been a student of animal behavior all her life. She grew up in a lakeside home in Michigan, rescuing and training everything from ducks to dogs and horses. Judy holds an undergraduate degree in zoology and a masters degree in technical communications, so communicating with animals has always been very natural for her.

While traveling in countries throughout the world, Judy observed firsthand the neglect and abuse of dogs in many human cultures. After a brief career as an editor and writer, she settled with her husband and sons in the Colorado mountains where she owns and operates Wapiti Run, a horse training and breeding ranch, a sanctuary for rescued animals, especially dogs, and the headquarters for her dog owner training program.

Judy was one of the founders and served as director of the Pet Assistance League, a private humane organization committed to rescuing, rehabilitating and adopting out abandoned dogs. The PAL also vigorously promoted dog-owner education and responsibility, including dog obedience training.

Her skills in communications research have served her well in discovering ways to reach and restore the confidence and happiness of severely traumatized dogs. Because of her effective rehabilitation methods, she was able to successfully place in homes 100 percent of the dogs she rescued, both on her own and through the Pet Assistance League. Her volunteer obedience training work in animal shelters has been invaluable in making shelter dogs more adoptable. Judy is listed in the 26th edition of Who's Who in the West and Strathmore's Who's Who 1999-2000.

Judy now devotes most of her time to teaching people how to develop a communication partnership with their dogs. She teaches seminars through the Colorado Free University for all people wanting to better understand dog behavior, in order to help their own dogs, or just to enjoy dogs more.